Sökning: "Susan Sontag"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Susan Sontag.
1. For every word has its own shadow: Sunsets, Notes From Underground, Waves
Sammanfattning : Liminality permeates this doctoral project's questions: how can an experience of the liminal exist as an artwork? What things and experiences can orient us towards affectivity and states of becoming? Lisa Tan relates such concerns to Clarice Lispector whose writing renders becoming(s) visible. Coupled with Maurice Blanchot and his literary discourse on dispossession and the outside (analogous to becoming), Tan's inquiry is critically engaged inside a moving image practice. LÄS MER
2. Interpretive Skepticism : Stanley Cavell, New Criticism, and Literary Interpretation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores and analyzes interpretive skepticism in literary theory. It argues that traditional interpretive theories and debates often harbor unacknowledged forms of skeptical thinking and arguments. As these forms of skepticism are seldom recognized as skepticism, the problem tends to remain hidden and unresolved. LÄS MER
3. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition
Sammanfattning : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. LÄS MER
4. Burkkänslan : surrealism i Christer Strömholms fotografi : en undersökning med semiotisk metod
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is mainly concerned with the photography of Christer Strömholm. In studying his work semiotics is used as a method in analysing the rhetoric of his photographs and their relations to the photographic world, the artworld and the lifeworld. LÄS MER